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Longtime Christian music artist Amy Grant has launched a brand new authentic track reflecting on nationwide division that seems to reference the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot and the idealism of the Nineteen Sixties.
“The sixth of January (Yasgur’s Farm),” is a folks track reflecting on therapeutic and connection amid world unrest that asks, “Have all of us misplaced our means?” in accordance with a press release.
“Yasgur’s Farm” refers back to the New York property the place the Woodstock music competition passed off in Bethel, New York, on Aug. 15-18, 1969.
The track opens with nostalgia for the hopeful spirit of the late Nineteen Sixties, referencing Marvin Gaye, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., John Lennon’s “Think about” and Woodstock. It goes on to counsel the occasions of “the sixth of January” marked a symbolic break from the idealism of the ’60s counterculture.
Trump supporters attempt to break via a police barrier, on Jan. 6, 2021, on the Capitol in Washington. (Julio Cortez, File/AP Photograph)
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“Hey mister, the place’s the highway to Yasgur’s farm?” the lyrics say. “He stares at me with pity and alarm. Says that crowd left right here way back, scattered all to hell and Harper’s Ferry, on the sixth of January.”
Later within the track she sings, “I look forward and notice we’ve misplaced our means.”
The track invitations listeners to “see the world via one other’s perspective, and acknowledge the energy present in collective understanding,” the press launch says.
The monitor will probably be featured on Grant’s upcoming album of authentic songs, anticipated later this yr.
Amy Grant performs on the Ryman Auditorium on Might 10, 2024, in Nashville, Tennessee. (Jason Kempin/Getty Photographs)
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Grant has been a number one determine in Christian music for many years, incomes a number of Grammy Awards and is a 2022 Kennedy Heart Honoree.
She defined the track is meant to encourage folks to take heed to opposing viewpoints to be able to discover options.
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A younger communist holds up her signal at an anti-ICE rally at Foley Sq. in New York Metropolis on Jan. 8, 2026. (Nikolas Lanum/Fox Information Digital)
“We function on the planet round us and generally neglect the ability of what we have now in our selections,” she stated within the press launch. “The track observes life and the unrest many of us feel, whereas understanding we’re shaping the world round us every day. Perhaps life and problem-solving is extra of a ‘we’ than ‘me’ dialog. If we will select to look via a lens apart from our personal, possibly there’s hope to return collectively and discover a means via the unrest.”
Grant’s administration shared with Fox Information Digital an interview with Grant the place she went into extra element in regards to the inspiration behind the track.
“All of us are making the world what it’s, in the future at a time. How we welcome ourselves to it. How we welcome one another. If we have a look at the world round us as ‘us’ and ‘them,’ or if we have a look at the world as ‘we,'” Grant stated. “It is vital that we sit in unrest with out leaping to conclusions of how it may be fastened. And that begins inside… inside ourselves.”
